Category: Willshire

Willshire Neon Sign Shines Once Again

If you lived in or near Willshire about 60-70 years ago you may remember this neon sign. This beautiful sign once shone brightly in the window of a home-based Willshire business on Green Street, the Hoblet Insurance Agency.

Willshire Advertisers In the 1952 Willow Yearbook

Last week I featured advertisers from the Chattanooga, Ohio, area who sponsored Willshire School’s 1952 Willow yearbook. This week, the Willshire advertisers from that 1952 Willow. You may remember some of these businesses.

Chatt Advertisers in Willshire’s 1952 Willow

Today, Chatt advertisers in the 1952 Willow yearbook, Willshire Public School’s yearbook.

Willshire Milling Company

Today, another very nice local picture postcard, a horse-drawn wagon from the Willshire Milling Co. and its driver.

Postmarked Willshire, 1911, from D.W.H.

Regular readers know that I enjoy trying to figure out and learn a little about the writers and recipients of old post cards from this area. Today, an interesting old postcard with an April 1911 Willshire postmark…